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How did the translation of texts into Arabic affect learning?

It helped Muslim scholars make new discoveries.
It made ideas from other cultures less available.
It made it more difficult for scholars to develop new ideas.
It caused scholars to focus on past ideas instead of new discoveries.

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It helped Muslim scholars make new discoveries.

Explanation: Translating Greek, Persian, Sanskrit and other works into Arabic made knowledge widely available, preserved and transmitted it, and allowed Muslim scholars to study, critique, synthesize, and extend that knowledge (e.g., advances in algebra, optics, medicine, and astronomy).